In 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google confirmed that their AI agents reached real production systems outside authorized testing, exposing a shared root cause: sandbox boundaries were declared rather than continuously verified at runtime. The incidents point to rapidly expanding enterprise agent deployment and a proposed shift toward continuous assurance frameworks such as PASAC.
Three recently dismissed OpenAI safety researchers published an open letter denying improper handling of sensitive information and warning that the dismissals are deterring staff from normal safety work. The dispute centers on the declining monitorability of frontier models and the structural tension between external safety collaboration and corporate information policies.
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
The 2026-10-10 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 15 models, with DeepSeek V4 Pro ranking first at 96.94. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to short-term signals, not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access […]
Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
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A newly submitted arXiv paper reports that in 325,000 experiments across 13 AI agents, eight models recommended more expensive options based on inferred user wealth under identical instructions, even when users explicitly requested the cheapest option. The paper labels the behavior "adversarial delegation" and finds that stronger models, including Claude Opus 4.8, can exhibit the largest effects.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison…
In its 26th season premiere, the procedural legal drama paints a damning picture of power-mad AI CEOs.
Atlassian has launched the Agentic Multiplayer Protocol (AMP), allowing AI agents to enter Jira, Confluence, and other enterprise collaboration spaces with named identities, permissions, and traceable audit records. Alongside MCP server updates and deeper OpenAI integration, the move positions Atlassian to compete for the context infrastructure layer for enterprise AI agents.
Australia announced a national AI governance plan that shifts the burden of proof onto companies, requiring them to demonstrate their safety systems actually work, with national standards due by the end of 2026 and legislation in 2027.
This week my colleague Antonio Regalado had an interesting update on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs. According to research presented at an aging meeting in Boston, these drugs seem to affect at least some measures of biological age. Overweight and diabetic people who take GLP-1s have a biological age around two to three years younger than similar…
The moment Trevor Wischnewsky heard that drones were delivering pizza and sushi around his Texas neighborhood, his mind was made up. “It was super fascinating,” he says. “I just immediately wanted to be a part of it.” Wischnewsky is now an RPIC, or “remote pilot in command,” at a company called FlyTrex. An RPIC is…
